Org-mode version 5.02

Org-mode version 5.02

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi,

I am releasing version 5.02 of Org-mode.  It is available
as part of CVS emacs, and here:

   http://www.astro.uva.nl/~dominik/Tools/org-mode/

This release rounds off the new properties and column view
features by polishing the interfaces and adding a few more
details like summaries for columns.

Enjoy!

- Carsten


Changes in Version 5.02
-----------------------

* Overview

   - The interfaces for properties and column view are finished
     now and work well.

   - Properties can be summaries, i.e. the parent nodes can
     compute their value from the children's values.

   - Headlines finally require a space ofter the star(s).  The
     conflict with bold text at the beginning of the line is no
     longer there.

* Incompatible Changes

   - Bad news.  It looks like it is going to be really hard to
     make column view work on XEmacs and on Emacs 21.  Emacs 22
     is currently the only Emacs where this works.  If you are
     using Emacs 21 or XEmacs, you can still use properties, but
     not column view.

* Details

   - Improvements for properties:

     + There are interactive commands to insert and delete
       properties.  Read the manual chapter 7 for details.

     + You can define /allowed values/ for a property.  When
       these are defined, you can change the value of a property
       with S-left and S-right.  And you may use completion when
       inserting the property.  This goes a long way to prevent
       typos when entering properties.

   - Improvements for column view.

     + In column view, you may use the keys S-left/right (and
       also the keys `n' and `p') to switch from one allowed
       value to the next.

     + You can define summaries for columns.  For example,
       parents can contain the sum of all children values of a
       property, or the parent node can have a check box property
       that is automatically checked when all children's boxes are
       checked.

     + There are interactive commands to add and remove columns,
       and to change the attributes of a column like the summary
       type.

     These additions lead to the exciting fact that the example
     from [omni outliner] posted by Scott Jaderholm can now be
     accurately [reproduced by Org-mode].

   - The space after the stars is now required in a headline, in
     order to remove the conflict with bold words at the
     beginning of a line.  So

         * This is a level 1 headline
         *this is bold text*

   - S-up and S-down to navigate plain item lists are now also
     available in orgstruct-mode.

Re: Org-mode version 5.02

[Raimund Kohl-Füchsle]

Carsten Dominik schrieb:
>
>   http://www.astro.uva.nl/~dominik/Tools/org-mode/
Not found (error code 404)

ray

Re: Org-mode version 5.02

[Carsten Dominik]

On Jul 10, 2007, at 10:17, Raimund Kohl-Füchsle wrote:

> Carsten Dominik schrieb:
>>
>>   http://www.astro.uva.nl/~dominik/Tools/org-mode/
> Not found (error code 404)

Typo, it should be this:

   http://www.astro.uva.nl/~dominik/Tools/org/


Thanks.

- Carsten

Typo in info docs (was: Org-mode version 5.02)

[Tassilo Horn]

Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:

Hi Carsten,

There's a little typo in 

,----[ (info "(org)Column view") ]
| A great way to view and edit properties in aan outline tree is _column
|                                            ^^^
| view_.
`----

Bye,
Tassilo
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